I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.
I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in.
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.
Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.
When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.
Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men
There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.
The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
